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Virginia Gov announces (quasi-)moratorium on executions until Baze

By Douglas A. Berman

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Because the Supreme Court has already created a de facto moratoirum on executions nationwide (which has now gone on more than six months), I am not sure this new moratorium story from Virginia is really big news. Nevertheless, the details seem worth a mention:Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced today a moratorium on executions until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Kaine delayed the scheduled April 8 execution of Edward Nathaniel Bell, who killed a police officer in Winchester in 1999, until at least July. Along with that decision, Kaine said future scheduled executions will also be put on hold until after the Supreme Court makes its ruling in the case Baze v. Rees...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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